Milano Cortina 2026 - Team USA - Figure Skating

[bmo 273]

Looks like Malinin will skate the SP and USA will re-asses ahead of free skate.

 

Edited February 2 by bmo

[clemsonbeav 666]

I feel like if Malinin did LP alone, we'd win regardless of who else skated.

[bmo 273]

44 minutes ago, clemsonbeav said:

I feel like if Malinin did LP alone, we'd win regardless of who else skated.

Malinin doing short instead of long will give him more rest ahead of his individual competition.

[clemsonbeav 666]

15 minutes ago, bmo said:

Malinin doing short instead of long will give him more rest ahead of his individual competition.

Yep, for sure, and probably they know his stamina.  (But he's so young, and surely he can handle an extra couple of minutes!)    (Not me telling an Olympic athlete what he should do...haha.

[Triplecast 215]

On 2/2/2026 at 10:31 AM, clemsonbeav said:

Team event starts Friday:

Rhythm Dance 03:55 EST

Pairs Short 05:35

Women's Short 07:35

 

Any thoughts as to who we'll send to compete in these?

 Rhythmn Dance is obvious, I think.  The key to the whole team event for me is how many placements can C&B gap the Japanese.  

[clemsonbeav 666]

On 2/3/2026 at 1:41 PM, Triplecast said:

 Rhythmn Dance is obvious, I think.  The key to the whole team event for me is how many placements can C&B gap the Japanese.  

But our ice dance pairs are all better than Japan, so I wonder if C&B will do both, or let someone else take over.

 

By comparison, our third best ice dance team scored 70 points better than Japan's entry in the Grand Prix (source)  (Edit: Disregard my scoring math...I hadn't remembered that the Team event is about placement, not points.)

Edited February 6 by clemsonbeav

[clemsonbeav 666]

Start lists up for the first three rounds: https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/results/fsk/te/x/team--------------/qual/0004dc--/result

 

Chock & Bates

Kam & O'Shea

Alysa Liu

[clemsonbeav 666]

And it is Malinin who will do the M FS.

 

10 Points for C&B!  

[bmo 273]

Good start in the team event. Needed a top 5 finish by Kam/O'Shea and they got it. Could've even gotten 4th if they didn't make that big mistake.

[Triplecast 215]

22 hours ago, bmo said:

Good start in the team event. Needed a top 5 finish by Kam/O'Shea and they got it. Could've even gotten 4th if they didn't make that big mistake.

I’m getting nervous about this event.  Kam/O’Shea need to be 4th in the free skate to make things a little safer.